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Armless driver brakes at court
By Li Xinran |
January 12, 2009, Monday
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AN armless veteran driver in southwestern China's Yunnan has taken local traffic police to court because he was refused a driver's license because of his handicap.
He Yuelin, 48, told Chongqing Morning Post that he was striving for equal rights for physically challenged people around country. He asked the court to overrule the police decision not to give him a license.
He lost both of his arms in a bomb explosion in his youth. But he learned to drive in 1984 and traveled the length and breadth of China in a variety of vehicles over the next 20 odd years.
He drove to the Mount Everest Base Camp with a dozen other physically challenged auto fans in 2004. He won a mention in the "Guiness Book Of Records" for driving an 8-ton truck over a 30-kilometer zigzagging mountain road in 2002 then in 2004 competed with normal drivers in an off-road rally in Kunming, capital of Yunnan.
He has never been involved in traffic accident but has often been fined for driving without a license.
He applied for a driver's license on December 6 but was refused by traffic police authority in Yunnan's Lijiang City in accordance with the law.
He then filed a suit with Lijiang's Gucheng District People's Court.
The court heard the case this morning.
He Yuelin, 48, told Chongqing Morning Post that he was striving for equal rights for physically challenged people around country. He asked the court to overrule the police decision not to give him a license.
He lost both of his arms in a bomb explosion in his youth. But he learned to drive in 1984 and traveled the length and breadth of China in a variety of vehicles over the next 20 odd years.
He drove to the Mount Everest Base Camp with a dozen other physically challenged auto fans in 2004. He won a mention in the "Guiness Book Of Records" for driving an 8-ton truck over a 30-kilometer zigzagging mountain road in 2002 then in 2004 competed with normal drivers in an off-road rally in Kunming, capital of Yunnan.
He has never been involved in traffic accident but has often been fined for driving without a license.
He applied for a driver's license on December 6 but was refused by traffic police authority in Yunnan's Lijiang City in accordance with the law.
He then filed a suit with Lijiang's Gucheng District People's Court.
The court heard the case this morning.
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